Stas:
Just b/c there are rarely any women at all that participate on this list, could
we at list maintain a facade of gender neutrality? I seriously can't believe
that you used the word "him". What about "her"? Yeah, "her" as in myself and
every other woman who codes with PHP whether to earn
I feel that for PHP to incorporate some of the convenience that Python offers
is a good particularly with respect to attracting the upcoming generation. PHP
needs an injection of new coolness to attract and captivate the imagination of
young college-age people who are being exposed to Python as
The idea was originally proposed by Marc Easen who created a patch and asked
for help with putting together an RFC. I have yet to see a formal proposal but
on the list Easen modified his idea so that it should apply to strings alone.
With that in mind, would it really cause problems to have co
>I see how this may work for strings and simple vectors, but what about this:
>
>$a = array(-1 => "foo", -2 => "bar"); echo $a[-1];
>
>It should keep returning "foo", right? So then the question is - what
>$array[-1] actually means?
Context would be the deciding factor, i.e. perhaps restrict the
>as I understood, a lot of people seem to have problems with this proposal,
>since arrays and strings could (and maybe >should) behave the same.
The terminology "negative indexing" seems to imply that the feature should work
with arrays. To restrict it to just strings might involve creating a te
